The big value of a trailer like this is to show a hands-on, in-your-face kind of encounter with actual physical stuff ...

For many, it's the start of a new semester of physics labs. That means there are new students in that introductory course. Of course, no one is really 100 percent ready to start these labs---but ...

A hands-on physics lab exploring how to plot electric fields and electric potential. Visualize how charges influence space ...

Modern scientific equipment can be staggeringly expensive. Take, for example, an instrument like a NanoSIMS probe, a instrument that lets scientists pick materials apart a few atoms at a time. There's ...

The virtual lab is kind of a “flight simulator” or quantum physics. There are programs that can guide students through concepts like delocalized complex molecules, with virtual experiments similar to ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

The Applied Physics Laboratory, led by Dr. D. Dobrynin, was formed in 2011, and is focused on the fundamental and applied research of “cold” atmospheric pressure plasmas. Primary research areas ...

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